Universal Chan Tea Club 12/18—Enhance Your Life with Tea

445 Colusa Avenue,Kensington CA 94707

18 December, 2021

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You'll learn basic knowledge & interesting facts about our selection of teas. We'll guide you to taste through the function of Zen awareness Join Our Mindful Tea Tasting Event—Enhance Your Life with Tea 3:00-5:00pm, Saturday (Dec. 18th) at Universal Chan Center, 10 seats open for RSVP. Do you think that drinking tea is putting a teabag in hot water and then adding some milk and sugar? No!! With a collection of several hundred varieties of tea, lectures, and guided tasting, our event will definitely give you a completely new experience and open a new tea world for you! In this tasting event, you will learn basic knowledge and interesting facts about our selection of teas. We will guide you to taste through the function of Zen awareness and be exploring three types of unique teas: Fresh white tea, aged white tea, and red tea. Our experienced teachers have been teaching an accredited Tea & Zen class (“TeaCal”) at UC Berkeley for four semesters where over two hundred students have participated in the class by now. We've also established a Tea Zen Club for the students. Our team is dedicated to introducing tea, the elixir from the East, into your life as well as building a tea lover’s community. Here are what students are saying: “As I sip the fine tea, time seems to slow down allowing me to feel the tea flowing through my body. In those moments my mind is completely clear, stress free, and free from any wandering thoughts. I am truly in the moment during my tea time.” “I’ve come to the conclusion that I should be noticing the small changes like I do in tea. Treat every day as different and treat every sip as a new sip.” “I never realized that simply watching the color of the tea change as it steeps could be so satisfying.”  How to RSVP for this Tea Tasting Event Please complete the following steps: 1. Sign our Universal Chan Waiver: app.hellosign.com/s/Is7L3vLp 2. Upload your COVID-19 Vaccine Record here: tinyurl.com/vaccinecardupload
 3. Checkout your ticket for this event here on Eventbrite. There is a minimum donation requirement of $25. Please make your donation when you checkout your ticket. Thank you. Reminders: 1. Please dress suitable for you to comfortably sit on the floor. 2. Please avoid wearing perfume or cosmetics with a strong fragrance, which may affect your or other people’s appreciating the delicate aromas of the fine teas. Universal Chan International Zen Buddhist Center is a donation-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization derived from the Chinese Chan* Tradition, founded by the Chan Monk Da Xing. Your generosity will help us to continue to serve humanity. Examples of donations: Money, stocks, property, piece of land, very good condition vehicles, property/land to use for free. You may send monetary donations through https://donorbox.org/universalchan or paypal.me/universalchan. For more information, please visit https://www.universalchan.org/support-us It operates mainly in Asia, Europe, and the USA, but we are open to be active in other countries as well. Compared to China or other Asian countries where Buddhism is a prevalent religion, the USA has only been exposed to Buddhism for less than a century. Many active Buddhist schools across the USA are of Hinayana, Vajrayana, Mahayana, Chan, Japanese Zen, and doctrinal studies. All these traditions come from different countries and consequently reflect cultural influences and inflections specific to their place of origin. Although Chinese Chan Tradition is present, we hope we can give our contribution to spread this wonderful teaching. It is a great pity that the vast majority of westerners have not been exposed to Chinese Chan, and even fewer people are able to use Chan Buddhism to improve their lives. The goal of the organization and of its affiliations is to spread the Chan Teachings to deeply benefit those interested in learning the teachings of the Buddha. In doing this, we use a modern approach rooted in ancient tradition to expose people to other aspects of ancient Chinese culture connected to this teaching. *Chan (Japanese: Zen)